Sturdily potted, the stout body set with a short straight neck, enamelled in the Wucai palette, the body with a continuous design of a phoenix in flight among bright peony blooms and scrolling leafy tendrils, a flame pattern to the neck, the domed cover similarly decorated with peony and leafy scrolls and with triangle work to the everted rim, the base glazed. Period: Shunzhi (1644?1661). Height: 26 cm.